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Episode One Hundred Thirty Nine Show Notes KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine– Currently Reading –The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki (EF)Shadow Life: When Death Comes Too Soon, Fight Dirty – Hiromi Goto, Ann Xu (Illustrator) (CW)Water I Won’t Touch – Kayleb Rae Candrilli (EF)Like Other Girls – Britta Lundin (CW)Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature – Farah Jasmine Griffin (CW)(audio) – Just Read – Fault Lines – Emily Itami (EF) Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change – Maggie Smith (EF) – Biblio Adventures – Emily went to the Ogunquit Memorial Library in Maine and found an adorable Little Free Library out front that is a replica of the library. It turns out that Chris visited the library five years ago. You can read her blogpost about the visit here. – Upcoming Jaunts –Chris is going to Boston and hopes to visit a bookstore, or two, or more.Emily is heading to Martha’s Vineyard and hopes to visit Bunch of Grapes bookstore, Edgartown Books, Portobello Road bookstore, and go on the prowl for Sister’s Blackwell historical sites.– Upcoming Reads –Mrs. March – Virginia Feito (EF)Bewilderment – Richard Powers (EF)Matrix – Lauren Groff (CW) – Author Spotlight with Janice P. Nimura and 18th Readalong discussion – The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura. The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE.Janice also wrote the book Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back.You can learn more about Janice here.– Also Mentioned –Sinking Islands – Cai Emmons Red Hen PressMy Year of Meats – Ruth OzekiElliot Bay Book Co. (sub)TEXT Poetry SubscriptionCopper Canyon PressSally RooneyHaruki MurakamiKeep Moving: The Journal: Thrive Through Change and Create a Life You Love – Maggie Smith God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine – Victoria SweetWoman in the Nineteenth Century – Margaret Fuller Leaving Coy’s Hill – Katherine A. SherbrookeThe Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights – Dorothy WickendenWomen in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine – Olivia CampbellIn Falling Snow – Mary-Rose MacCollTestament of Youth – Vera BrittainSunflower Sisters – Martha Hall KellyThe Gilded Hour – Sara DonatiThe Documentary 13thYou can help support the Book Cougars via our affiliates:Libro.fm audiobook platform: Follow this link for the monthly membership. (promo code: bookcougars)We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café, click HERE to start shopping.Bookshop.org – support us and independent bookstores! If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe!Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.